Empowerment
People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: What are your rights?
Denial of communication access services
VRS issues
Movie captioning
TV & HDTV captioning
Employment discrimination
7 p.m. – 9 p.m., November 9, 2007
Houston Community College
South East Campus – Lecture Hall
6815 Rustic Avenue
Houston, TX 77087
Howard Rosenblum is a Senior Attorney at Equip for Equality, Illinois’ Protection and Advocacy, and has 15 years’ experience in disability rights and special education law. Mr. Rosenblum is co-founder and Chairperson of the Midwest Center on Law and the Deaf. He received a law degree from IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law (1992) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona (1988).
Interpreters and real-time captioning will be provided. Any other assistive needs must be requested by October 29, 2007 to guarantee coordination. Contact [email protected] or call Randi Turner at 512-407-3250 (V), 512-407-3251 (TYT), 512-407-3267 (VP).
1-800-628-5115 DHHS ext 3250 (V), 866-581-9328 3251 DHHS ext 3251 (TTY)
http://www.dars.state.tx.us/dhhs